Penrose v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case : The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant was appointed captain and quartermaster in the Army of the United States April 8, 1901, during recess of Congress, and was thereafter duly appointed captain and quartermaster on December 26, 1901, which latter appointment was thereafter duly confirmed. II. Prior to and until June 30,1901, Capt. and Asst.
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The Reporter's statement of the case : The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant was appointed captain and quartermaster in the Army of the United States April 8, 1901, during recess of Congress, and was thereafter duly appointed captain and quartermaster on December 26, 1901, which latter appointment was thereafter duly confirmed. II. Prior to and until June 30,1901, Capt. and Asst. Q. M. P. H. McCaull, U. S. Yolunteers, Was in charge of the U. S. army transport Egbert, then at Seattle, Wash. III. Upon the request of his father, Capt. P. H. McCaull,…
1Opinion of the Court
• Howry, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is a suit wherein the court is asked to direct the accounting officers of the Treasury to give the plaintiff, as pay*33master in the Army, credit in the settlement of his accounts for $5,551.90, which amount, he says, was lost through the embezzlement of a clerk under the circumstances disclosed by the findings.
Section 1059 of the Revised Statutes provides relief on the claim of any paymaster, quartermaster, commissary of subsistence, or other "disbursing officer of the United States for relief from responsibility on account of capture or…
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